A poem by Alan Seeger (1888-1916)
The lad I was I longer now
Nor am nor shall be evermore.
Spring’s lovely blossoms from my brow
Have shed their petals on the floor.
Thou, Love, hast been my lord, thy shrine
Above all gods’ best served by me.
Dear Love, could life again be mine
How bettered should that service be!
A few random poems:
- Василий Курочкин – Как не вскрикнуть тут с поэтом
- The Red Earth of Kupungarri by Nicole M Nugent
- Владимир Маяковский – Стихи о Фоме
- Breather by Vishü Rita Krocha
- Sonnet 125: Were’t aught to me I bore the canopy by William Shakespeare
- The Bridge of Sighs by Thomas Hood
- Гавриил Державин – Философы, пьяный и трезвый
- On An Old Woman (From The Greek) by William Cowper
- Иннокентий Анненский – Еврипид. Ион (перевод)
- Greek Light
- Владимир Высоцкий – Вот Вы докатились до сороковых
- Smiling Buddha by Satish Verma
- The Curse Of Cromwell by William Butler Yeats
- Шекспир – Мой глаз гравером стал – Сонет 24
- Robert Burns: Remorse: Fragment
External links
Bat’s Poetry Page – more poetry by Fledermaus
Talking Writing Monster’s Page –
Batty Writing – the bat’s idle chatter, thoughts, ideas and observations, all original, all fresh
Poems in English
- A Sigh In The Night
- A Sermon
- A Prayer
- A Dream Of Venice
- A Supplication
- Written Juice Lemon
- Written In Juice Of Lemon
- Wit
- Welcome
- Vote Excerpt
- Usurpation
- Tree Knowledge
- To The Royal Society
- To The Lord Falkland
- To Sir William Davenant
- Thisbes Song
- The Wish
- The Welcome
- The Vote Excerpt
- The Usurpation
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
Search engines:
Yandex – the best search engine for searches in Russian (and the best overall image search engine, in any language, anywhere)
Qwant – the best search engine for searches in French, German as well as Romance and Germanic languages.
Ecosia – a search engine that supposedly… plants trees
Duckduckgo – the real alternative and a search engine that actually works. Without much censorship or partisan politics.
Yahoo– yes, it’s still around, amazingly, miraculously, incredibly, but now it seems to be powered by Bing.
Parallel Translations of Poetry
The Poetry Repository – an online library of poems, poetry, verse and poetic works
Alan Seeger (1888-1916) was an American war poet who fought and died in World War I during the Battle of the Somme, serving in the French Foreign Legion. Seeger was the brother of Charles Seeger, a noted American pacifist and musicologist and the uncle of folk musician, Pete Seeger.